Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 54

Thus Gawain, the Father of Adventure, so daunted them with the blows that he smote that many drew aside and turned from the strife with deep wounds and wide. '

Who acts: Gawain, many · What happens: daunt, smite, draw, turn · To what, where: blows, strife, Gawain

This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gawain, many), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thus	thus	ADV	_	2 Gawain	advmod
2	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Father	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Father	det
5	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Gawain	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Adventure	case
7	Adventure	Adventure	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Father	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 daunted	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 daunted	advmod
10	daunted	daunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Gawain	parataxis
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 daunted	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 blows	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 blows	det
14	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 daunted	obl
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 smote	obj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 smote	nsubj
17	smote	smite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 blows	acl:relcl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 drew	mark
19	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 drew	nsubj
20	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 smote	ccomp
21	aside	aside	ADV	_	20 drew	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 turned	cc
23	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 drew	conj
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 strife	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 strife	det
26	strife	strife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 turned	obl
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 wounds	case
28	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 wounds	amod
29	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 turned	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 wide	cc
31	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 wounds	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 daunted	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 daunted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	daunt	participle		blows = blow		with the blows	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
2	smite	past	Gawain	the blows			tree rules
3	draw	past	many			aside property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	turn	past	many not said here		the strife	with deep wounds	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from strife=Trajectory

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Project Gutenberg book 8447 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 54

The tree

Pragmatics

Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 5, sentence 54